I don’t think it was a weather ballon.
I think if they had already identified it, we should’ve shot it down the very instant it crossed into US airspace.
I think the CCP got a real good and close high def resolution look at important military facilities compared to satellite imagery and probably used thermal detectors to see some infrastructure (gas/oil pipelines) and their usuage/flow along the way.
I think the delayed response and back and forth on the decision making and public statements make us look bad/weak as a nation.
I think Joe Biden, his administration, the Democrat and Republican Parties, about all federal level public officials and most state level officials, are a complete sham, waste, and sorry excuses for representives of the vast majority of the general public.
I think the CCP, Putin, the Iranians, and others are smiling ear to ear and one step closer to executing a plan that has been in the works for some time, and we as a nation are going to be caught with the wool over our eyes.